Typically, school and town budget publications list expenses and income, with a tax rate and a tax levy. But this isn’t “full disclosure”. If assessments rise a lot, and expenses rise just a little, then the tax rate may decrease even while more tax dollars are collected. It’s useful for taxpayers to have some notion of what that sneaky assessor has been up to.

I know what my home’s assessed value is (Perinton notifies me directly, and it’s on the internet), but I have not been able to find total assessment data on the internet. Tax rates are a complicated mix of levies and property values (commercial and residential), so it’s not really possible for me to verify the residential tax rate from the raw data. Still, I wish I could see, for example, the total assessed value of all taxed properties in Perinton.

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Gary Gocek grew up in Liverpool (central NY) and attended RIT (BS in CS). He has lived in or around Fairport for over 20 years. Gary now lives west of the village of Fairport with his wife, two cats and two guitars. He has two young-adult sons who graduated from FHS.

Gary works as a software developer and enjoys his family, music, ethnic heritage activities, church activities and DVDs-by-mail. He maintains family and other websites. After 9/11, he became a news junkie, gathering news from the D&C, TV, radio and the Internet. Gary says blogging is a natural extension, and for the D&C he hopes to "mix typical diary-like blog entries with humorous posts and comments on local politics."